Fabienne Keller

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Fabienne Keller (2014)

Fabienne Keller (born October 20, 1959 in Sélestat , Alsace ) is a French politician ( UDF , UMP , Agir ). She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 . She was mayor of Strasbourg from 2001 to 2008 and a member of the French Senate from 2005 to 2019 .

Life

Keller studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts and acquired in Berkeley the title Master of Arts in Economics . Professionally, she worked in ministries and in banking.

In 1991, Keller joined the civil union pour la démocratie française (UDF). From 1992 to 2001 she was a member of the General Council of the Bas-Rhin department , and from 1998 to 2004 Vice-President of the Regional Council of Alsace . In the 1999 European elections she ran on the UDF list of François Bayrou , and in 2002 she was a member of the European Parliament for a short time .

In 2001, Keller became mayor of Strasbourg as the successor to Catherine Trautmann . In 2002, she joined the newly founded center-right collection party Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). In 2004 she was elected to the French Senate to represent Bas-Rhin . After the election had been declared invalid by the Constitutional Council , it succeeded in re-entering the Senate in the new elections that became necessary in 2005. In 2008 she lost in the Strasbourg local elections against Roland Ries from the Parti socialiste . Since then she has been the opposition leader on the city council.

In 2014 she was re-elected to the Senate, where she represented the UMP, which was renamed Les Républicains in 2015 . In the Republican area code for the 2017 presidential election , she supported Alain Juppé , who was defeated by François Fillon . Keller then took a public stand against Fillon, who was involved in an affair over the alleged fictitious employment of his wife Penelope at state expense. In November 2017, Keller founded the group Agir - la droite constructive ("Action - the constructive right") under the leadership of Franck Riester, together with other moderate members of Les Républicains, who were more likely to support the policies of President Emmanuel Macron . Since then she has been a vice chairwoman of Agir. In February 2018 she finally left Les Républicains. To avoid a double mandate , she renounced her Senate seat in June 2019.

For the 2019 European elections , she stood as a candidate for the Renaissance list , which was formed by Macron's La République En Marche , Agir and other smaller parties in the center. She is a member of the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament , a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , a delegate for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ça continue: Fabienne Keller, première juppéiste à lâcher François Fillon. In: Le Lab , Europe 1, March 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ La sénatrice Fabienne Keller quitte à son tour Les Républicains. In: Public Sénat , February 23, 2018.
  3. ^ Entry on Fabienne Keller in the database of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Fabienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Sélestat , France